UPDATE (8/14/08): ACCORDING TO HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE, WRIGHT WAS REPORTEDLY MACED AND STUN-GUNNED AND CHARGED WITH INTERFERING WITH THE POLICE, A MISDEMEANOR.

According to the Associated Press, Jeffrey Wright, along with fellow actor Josh Brolin and five others, were placed in custody by the police shortly after 2 AM. They were involved in a bar fight early Saturday morning at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport, Louisiana.  Wright and Brolin are currently filming Oliver Stone latest film, W., a President George W. Bush biopic. Wright is playing General Colin Powell and Brolin is playing President Bush.

Bond fans who are paying attention to the buzz on the next film, Quantum of Solace (Opening October 31 in the UK and November 7 in the US), may note that Felix Leiter (played by Wright) has one prominent scene in which he meets 007 in a bar in South America, which erupts into an action sequence shortly afterward.

Talk about life imitating art!

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